1903 Trip through Boston

[downeastdigger]

I just spent the last 7 minutes watching this youtube that is pretty amazing, if you're a bottle collector. A trolley ride through 1903 Boston. I kept pausing the video to see if I could read the store front signs, to see if I had dug any bottles that the proprietor had sold over the years. I have dug a Jordan Marsh bottle, it was cosmetic, circa 1910. The trolley rolls by the front of the store somewhere near the middle.
hope you find it as interesting as I did. Cant believe a film like this exists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGBN8_9aGmY

 

[JOETHECROW]

So very cool Bram...Thank you. []

 

[frozenmonkeyface]

VERY, VERY cool!!!

 

[tftfan]

Real cool ! Thanks

 

[deenodean]

The 1st ever Google map street view. [].. beautiful building architecture during that era...nice video..

 

[myersdiggers1998]

everyone wore a trench coat and a tie.

 

[coldwater diver]

Hi Bram,
How did you stumble across that one? I liked it a lot, it reminded me of the beginning of the Naked Gun movie where the cop car is randomly driving all over the place. I noticed the time at 1pm and again at 1:40pm, and also bits of color film here and there. I don't know early cars but I bet the ones in that video would be worth a bit today.I left you a voicemail, let me know if you want to do a flounder dive there in. Thanks for the post.

 

[ILUV2DIG]

That's neat Bram...thanks for posting it.

 

[madpaddla]

Great one Bram.

Reminds me of the one similar to this that they did of San Francisco four days before the earthquake in 1906. The only reason it survived was b/c it was being shipped to New York for developing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RvgfoXGTs

Notice the difference in how many cars are seen in the Boston to San Fran in a matter of three years.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Cool stuff Bram! I love watching that old footage. When I first saw your post I thought it was the one Mad posted,I checked that one out before.but I never saw the Boston one.
I am surprised no one mentioned that 1903 was the year Owens invented the ABM. [] Its hard to believe that year changed the bottle making world forever.

The patent for the Owens Automatic Bottle Machine was granted in 1903. By 1905, more than 90% of bottles produced in the United States were machine made. That bastard!! [8D]


Another thing I noticed on that ride,not one shooting or mugging along the way [8D] Boy have times changed.